Inspiration
I've been a professional programmer for more than a dozen years and I've struggled with carpal tunnel pain for the last decade. It definitely impacts my job. I've tried improving grip strength, stretches, compression gloves, but not much has helped.
I started relying more on dictation tools more for my work but it's pretty challenging to get them to work until AI dramatically improved the tools. Because accessibility is such a sensitive permission for your computer and all of the major tools are closed source, I wanted to create an open source version and tailor it to my own needs.
So I made Ito: https://www.ito.ai/
What it does
Ito is a smart dictation tool. You can use either the normal dictation mode or command mode. Dictation allows you to use your voice in any app. Command mode lets you edit documents or create complicated documents quickly.
How we built it
It's built mostly using typescript with buf for the server side along with rust for the latency sensitive binaries.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We won best demo at an AI collective event in San Francisco in early September
What's next for Ito AI
Make it smarter by integrating more context.
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